[Bikers4Bush]

And why then did Darwin himself acknowledge intelligent design?

[Cadwalader]

As a right-wing conservative, I am startled to see how dumb some of you guys are. Do you really think that some "intelligent designer" would have made such a botch out of this world? And if the was an "intelligent designer", don't you think that we'd see some tiny scrap of evidence of his existence? If the conservatives have to rely on some ancient superstition to prevail politically, then maybe I'm on the wrong side.

[VOA]

And why then did Darwin himself acknowledge intelligent design?

I enjoyed the Los Angeles Times obituary on Francis Crick (of "Watson and Crick").
Crick embraced his "panspermia" idea (really intelligent design of
non-terrestrial origin) idea for awhile, but then dropped it.
He must have gotten some really nasty notes from some colleagues!